Might be worth talking to Guillaume and putting some informative text,
with a pointer, for the Wikitech newsletter.

Regards, Billinghurst

On Sat, 17 Jan 2015 05:05:10 +0100, Ricordisamoa
<ricordisamoa@openmailbox.org> wrote:

Thanks to the community for having taken up this challenge!
Many local copies of the template were deleted, but most of them are 
still there. The progress for wikis that are connected to Wikidata can 
be monitored via this item <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5400303>.
I also discovered that the parser function is only called if no 
arguments are present. For example, after two simple edits ([1] 

<https://de.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Vorlage:Mathematischer_Text/Definition&diff=408341>

and [2] 

<https://de.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Vorlage:Mathematischer_Text/Fakt&diff=408342>)

on the German Wikiversity, the transclusion count dropped from 1608 to

45.

Il 24/12/2014 05:08, Ricordisamoa ha scritto:

Hi guys,
some time ago the '!' parser function was added in MediaWiki to 
replace the homonym template. However, the latter still exists on lots 
of WMF wikis.
I've come up with a rough tool 
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/cleanup/excl-template.php> to help 
identifying the wikis on which it's still on use and the ones on which 
it can be safely deleted. I've already made the server purge the link 
cache for almost all of them.
But please don't use bots to nominate all those for speedy deletion, 
only handle wikis you're familiar with ;-)
And don't forget to get the documentation page deleted too!

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